CloudFlare, a provider of website security and performance services, was knocked offline this weekend following the failure of a number of Juniper Edge Routers. Juniper has acknowledged the incident and said it is investigating.

The acquisition offers new opportunities for Rackspace and its partners in the data-base-as-a-service arena. Meanwhile, the price reductions are intended to pass the benefits of greater efficiencies to customers while keeping in pace with market directions.

Success in helping customers transform their data centers for future workloads depends on VMware and its channel partners both focusing on three top priorities including software-defined data centers (SDDN), hybrid clouds and end-user computing, said VMware President and COO Carl Eschenbach.